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If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead. - Author object (270)

So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'" Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead. - Author object (270)

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away. - Author object (270)

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. - Author object (270)

I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money. - Author object (270)

Women and elephants never forget. - Author object (270)

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. - Author object (409)

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? - Author object (409)

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. - Author object (409)

I drink to make other people more interesting. - Author object (409)

Write drunk; edit sober. - Author object (409)

The first draft of anything is shit. - Author object (409)

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. - Author object (409)

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. - Author object (409)

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Author object (409)

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. - Author object (409)

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. - Author object (409)

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it. - Author object (409)

Never confuse movement with action. - Author object (409)

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. - Author object (409)